aka Blog v4.0
This season’s viewing schedule:
Tuesday:
The Gifted (FOX)
Mid-season replacement shows, time/day TBD:
The Orville
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
I’m more than half a season behind on all the CW DC shows, and frankly I was getting tired of all of them, so they’re totally off my viewing schedule. I may end up binge watching them, or switching to them as my morning exercise show. We’ll see.
None of the new shows interest me. Though I may end up checking a few of them out over the next week or so.
I seem to be getting nowhere with this list. And there are additional games that have and have not been played, too, since the last time I did this.
On major change is that instead of Warhammer 40K and variations, I only have Kill Team listed.
I also removed print-and-play games, and games that have not arrived yet.
Friday afternoon.
I still didn’t feel 100% this morning, so I stayed home.
I managed to shower at my usual time. The new scale still says I’ve lost about 8 pounds since the stone appeared. Surprisingly I can see and feel a difference in my face and my clothes.
I made breakfast, eggs, which I hadn’t had in about a week. Most of this week was 3am-4am wake up calls to urinate and rehydrate and falling back to sleep until about 7am-8am. Though I did manage to have oatmeal on Wednesday.
I decided to do what I meant to do last weekend, and went out to get a haircut. On reflection this should have been done Thursday afternoon, since I was in the area, dropping off the stone to my doctor’s office.
On the way home I stopped by Best Buy, since there was an email from after 11pm last night, telling me that Spider-Man for PS4 was available. I was asleep at the time.
Once home I popped in the Spider-Man disk, and marveled (heh) at the speed which the game was downloading, minutes instead of HOURS.
I began to watch Iron Fist season 2, which seems better than I was expecting it to be. I then jumped back to the PS4 and entered the download code for the pre-order bonus stuff, including Peter’s Infinity War suit.
I then started to play Spider-Man. It’s fun, but I only got [redacted] before I stopped, though I wasn’t feeling anything wrong with my hands. The PS4 controller just seems more comfortable in my hands than the XBox controller. We’ll see if this changes as I try to play the game further.
I went back to Iron Fist. The first episode was good, and I’m currently in the second. I don’t think I’m going to binge this over the weekend, since there’s other stuff I need to do.
I made the congratulatory frozen pizza that I bought earlier this week, to be eaten post-stone.
I think I’m going to finish this IF episode and either take a nap or do some miniatures painting.
And that elliptical looks like it’s been waiting for me to get back on it.
Sometime Thursday morning, I believe the stone either made it’s way to the end of the ureter or into the bladder itself.
Oddly, it didn’t appear when I peed a couple of times during the day.
Finally, after taking a #2, as I was about to flush, I saw a dark spot in the bowl (above the water line) about where my wee wee would be pointing, and discovered the stone.
4mm, as the doctor told me it was.
I washed it off and put it in a sample jar that the nurse had given to me as I was discharged from the ER on Saturday night.
I then drove it to my primary doctor’s office and dropped it off to on of her associates.
I’m glad that this one is over, and I hope it’s even longer between stones.
Thanks again to those who expressed their concerns.
Saturday morning! I’m up and taking in a soccer match, and I’m having a light breakfast of cottage cheese and a waffle.
The kidney pain returned.
For the third day in a row.
I texted my sisters about which hospital ER I need to go to under my health plan. They texted back that I should call a nurse on my health insurance card, and that I should ask about urgent care.
A phone call later, and texts from one sister that she’d be over to pick me up, and I was on my way to UCSF’s urgent care.
It took a couple of hours, but I finally saw a doctor, after giving a urine sample. She confirmed that I had a kidney stone (blood in urine) and had me have a blood draw to check that everything was fine. She also prescribed flomax for my condition.
An hour later, I found out that it wasn’t, my creatinine levels were high compared to a recent test in July. So I was sent across the street to the hospital’s emergency room for an IV to try to get those levels down, and to get a CT scan on my kidneys.
The waiting room time was about 4 hours, and then another hour or so lying on a hospital bed in the hallway near the CT scan room.
I was given a saline drip, then brought in for the scan, and then got a shot of toredol in my IV.
I finally had the doctor arrive to tell me what was up, that the stone should pass on it’s own. She gave me a prescription for some other pain med (which I may not need) and this time they gave me a strainer and sample container for the stone when it passes.
After I was discharged my other sister picked me up and we picked up some cranberry juice and chicken broth from Safeway. That’s when I remembered that I forgot to pick up my multi-tool from the security desk, which was confiscated when I arrived to the waiting room.
We went back to pick it up, then went home, where my sister prepared some of the broth and cranberry juice for me.
I feel fine now, probably better once I get the new prescription.
Thanks again to my sisters who I never listen to about health matters, until it does matter.